Example sentences of "to take [pers pn] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had called Professor Ruiperez from my hostal , and at once he came to take me out to lunch at an expensive restaurant featuring all the local dishes , including a hearty paella and fine Rioja wines . |
| 2 | ‘ He wants to take me out to dinner tonight , ’ Alexandra could not resist adding . |
| 3 | When she learned — shock , horror , dismay ! — that he wanted to take me out to dinner she had the brass nerve to call me ‘ a Jezebel ’ ! |
| 4 | Do n't you have a boyfriend to take you out to lunch ? ’ |
| 5 | She said I wo n't be able to take you out to lunch till after Christmas time cos I 'll be far too busy . |
| 6 | " I want to take you out to dinner , Lollie , " he said . |
| 7 | When the Rector gravely offered Alexandra his arm to take her in to dinner , Robert 's face fell so utterly that she took his arm as well , and moved lopsidedly from the room between her ill-assorted escorts to the unspeakable anguish of the baby . |
| 8 | The sight of Fred and Daisy after the first night added to his nerve , and he scooped the skeletal Peaseblossom out of a dressing-room full of tulle to take her out to dinner with them . |
| 9 | ‘ She has all her old friends from Vienna to take her out to dinner . |
| 10 | And sometimes dad used to take us down to Serenity , to see the ships . |
| 11 | Tuesday 27th we camped at East Twinbrook , about five miles from where the waterway ends and where the Chewonki van would be waiting to take us back to camp . |